Which of the following courses are <em>essential</em> for an undergraduate degree in physics?
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Introductory Classical Mechanics (at the level of Halliday and Resnick, Matter and Interactions, or equivalent)
Introductory Classical Electromagnetism (at the level of Halliday and Resnick, Matter and Interactions, or equivalent)
Introductory "Modern Physics" (at the level of Halliday and Resnick, or equivalent)
Introductory Thermodynamics/ Statistical Mechanics (at the level of Halliday and Resnick, or equivalent)
Sophomore "Modern Physics" (at the level of Beiser, or Thornton and Rex, or equivalent)
Quantum Mechanics I (at the level of Eisberg and Resnick, or Griffiths, or equivalent)
Classical Mechanics (at the level of Fowler, or Bairelein, or equivalent)
Classical Electromagnetism (at the level of Griffiths, or equivalent)
Thermodynamics/ Statistical Mechanics (at the level of Kittel, or equivalent)
Quantum Mechanics II (at the level of Park, or Townsend, or equivalent)
Solid State Physics (at the level of Kittel, or equivalent)
Nuclear and Particle Physics (at the level of Griffiths, or equivalent)
Classical Waves and Optics (at the level of French, or equivalent)
Classical Optics (at the level of Hecht, or equivalent)
Advanced Laboratory (at the level of Melissinos, or equivalent)
Circuits/ Electronics (at the level of something below Horowitz and Hill)
General Relativity/ Cosmology (at the level of a textbook to be named in the comments)
Quantum Field Theory (at the level of a textbook to be named in the comments)
Atomic/ Molecular Physics (at the level of Foote or equivalent)
Quantum Optics (at the level of Fox or equivalent)
Another course which I will identify in a comment
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